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We spent an afternoon together in the Salt Lake City Public Library memorizing phone books, which was scintillating.

So I actually scheduled sleep on my calendar, and spent the 8-hour time difference on conference calls with material suppliers, manufacturers and potential customers.

They must think this guy with this dove, he must have spent years working with him.

And when I asked her what the term meant, she spent what felt like an hour giving me a thorough and thoughtful explanation that would make sense to a small child.

The good life is a life where design is important because somebody obviously took the time and spent the money for that kind of well-designed chair; where tradition is important, because this is a traditional classic and someone cared about this; and where there is something as conspicuous consumption, where it is OK and normal to spend a humongous amount of money on such a chair, to signal to other people what your social status is.

So I spent a long, long time thinking about it.

Most of those individuals had spent most of their lives in long-stay hospitals.

So I have spent hours upon hours trying to make sense of this weird Groundhog Day.

And this isn't just a sort of short-term workforce to connect patients to basic resources, it's a next generation healthcare leadership pipeline who've spent two, three, four years in the clinic waiting room talking to patients about their most basic health needs.

But the truth is I've spent every waking minute nearly since then chasing that vision.

Dodged by death, he spent much of his time in his suite at the Waldorf-Astoria.

And for the last four years, my coauthor Phanish Puranam and I spent investigating this topic.

I've spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals.

At times, I spent up to 20 hours in mechanical restraints, arms tied, arms and legs tied down, arms and legs tied down with a net tied tightly across my chest.

I sincerely want to believe that technology can bring us the techno-utopia that we've been promised, but, you see, I've spent a career in law enforcement, and that's informed my perspective on things.

My dad was my hero and my mentor for most of my life, and I've spent the last decade watching him disappear.

It's so much time, in fact, that the number one unsolicited comment that I have heard from people all over the world since I gave that talk, is this: Jane, games are great and all, but on your deathbed, are you really going to wish you spent more time playing Angry Birds?

I don't want gamers to regret the time they spent playing, time that I encouraged them to spend.

When we're on our deathbeds, will we regret the time we spent playing games?

Now, as far as I know, no one ever told one of the hospice workers, "I wish I'd spent more time playing video games," but when I hear these top five regrets of the dying, I can't help but hear five deep human cravings that games actually help us fulfill.

For many people, this means, I wish I'd spent more time with my family, with my kids when they were growing up.

We spent much of our time with my mother cooking.

They would have spent the time alone, all that time.

I spent many years in grad school trying to poke bees and do vaccines with needles.

We're not renowned for our words, and I spent the last 40 years hiding behind a camera so I didn't have to speak.

During this time, we hadn't really spent more than about a thousand dollars in equipment and materials, most of which was printer inks.

In the year 2010 alone, 50 billion dollars were spent worldwide to treat chronic wounds.

So I spent two years getting to know assembly line workers like these in the south China factory city called Dongguan.

I mean, you know, it was interesting, because I spent basically two years hanging out in this city, Dongguan, and over that time, you could see immense change in every person's life: upward, downward, sideways, but generally upward.

Andrew spent 16 years scavenging materials on the dump, earned enough money to turn himself into a contract scaler, which meant he carried a scale and went around and weighed all the materials that people had scavenged from the dump.

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